The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1851 |
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... believe New Jersey , held everything that freemen ought to consider as most dear - when I was informed that on every question respecting character , life , or fortune , the men who were to decide were to be picked or selected by a ...
... believe New Jersey , held everything that freemen ought to consider as most dear - when I was informed that on every question respecting character , life , or fortune , the men who were to decide were to be picked or selected by a ...
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... believe Montesquieu , and the writers since him , it is to the freedom of the press alone , England owes the portion of liberty she enjoys - it is the ladder by which she rose , and that which she will strug- gle most to preserve . I ...
... believe Montesquieu , and the writers since him , it is to the freedom of the press alone , England owes the portion of liberty she enjoys - it is the ladder by which she rose , and that which she will strug- gle most to preserve . I ...
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... believe that many of the inconveniences I have mentioned may have es- caped the President in the recent nomination . It is here I have always disliked it . I believe the general sentiment to be against it ; but , be that as it may , no ...
... believe that many of the inconveniences I have mentioned may have es- caped the President in the recent nomination . It is here I have always disliked it . I believe the general sentiment to be against it ; but , be that as it may , no ...
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... believe you doubt your be for Congress , either acting in their separate right to act at all ? If upon elections in a State chambers or in convention , to attempt to assume to Legislature , or the National one , petitioners have a ...
... believe you doubt your be for Congress , either acting in their separate right to act at all ? If upon elections in a State chambers or in convention , to attempt to assume to Legislature , or the National one , petitioners have a ...
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... believe them to be the most immaculate , and easily governed , and at the same time the best intentioned people in the world . I cannot therefore be suspected of the most distant reflection , in supposing that in some of the States ...
... believe them to be the most immaculate , and easily governed , and at the same time the best intentioned people in the world . I cannot therefore be suspected of the most distant reflection , in supposing that in some of the States ...
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Seite 75 - ... aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Seite 165 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Seite 17 - Among all our original associates in that memorable league of this continent in 1774, which first expressed the sovereign will of a free nation in America, he was the only one remaining in the general government. Although with a constitution more enfeebled than his, at an age when he thought it necessary to prepare for retirement, I feel myself alone, bereaved of my last brother ; yet I derive a strong consolation from the unanimous disposition which appears in all ages and classes to mingle their...
Seite 765 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Seite 765 - Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in our first and greatest revolutionary character, whose pre-eminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love, and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not...
Seite 525 - An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof...
Seite 73 - ... shall threaten harm to the body or estate of any of its members, for any thing said or done in the house; or who shall assault any of them therefor; or who shall assault, or arrest, any witness, or other person, ordered to attend the house, in his way in going or returning; or who shall rescue any person arrested by the order of the house.
Seite 47 - An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen ;" which amendments were adopted ; and the bill was ordered to the third reading as amended.
Seite 119 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Seite 523 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.